Sickness famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
-- Albert Ellis -
The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.
-- Albert Low -
Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
-- Albert Speer -
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
-- Alexander Pope -
We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.
-- Cameron Dokey -
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
-- Charles Baudelaire -
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
-- Charles Dickens -
In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?
-- Cornelia Funke -
Love is a sickness. Some kind of a pathogen existing above all explanation.
-- Craig Davidson -
As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.
-- David Levithan -
I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.
-- David Levithan -
Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.
-- Edmond de Goncourt -
What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.
-- Edward Dahlberg -
Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
-- Elie Wiesel -
It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.
-- Eliza Bisbee Duffey -
That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas .
-- Eric Hoffer -
I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.
-- Frank McCourt -
I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.
-- Helene Cixous -
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
-- Indro Montanelli -
Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.
-- J. C. Ryle -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-- Jackie Mason -
I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.
-- Jacques Derrida -
We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.
-- Jean Baptiste Massillon -
All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.
-- Jennifer Rardin -
You can either be the sickness in your world or you can be the cure.
-- Jessie Pavelka -
The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.
-- Joanne Greenberg -
We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.
-- John R. Rice -
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well
-- Lauren Oliver -
You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
-- Linus Pauling -
Every ailment, every sickness and every disease can be traced back to An organic trace mineral deficiency
-- Linus Pauling -
We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
-- Lionel Trilling -
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
-- Marianne Moore -
Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.
-- Mark Buchanan -
A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.
-- Martha Ostenso -
She disapproved, but part of her seemed secretly to sympathize with the sickness. It was like she thought everybody had it, and the best you could do was to cover it up, and sometimes it would just come boiling out anyway. Then you had to point at it and condemn it, even though you knew you had it too.
-- Mary Gaitskill -
I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.
-- Myrtle Fillmore -
Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all...
-- Nelson Mandela -
Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.
-- Nora Roberts -
First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.
-- Oliver Sacks -
Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.
-- Osamu Dazai -
Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.
-- Osamu Tezuka -
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.
-- Paul Bowles -
Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.
-- Paul Tournier -
The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.
-- Petr Skrabanek -
I have this mental sickness called creativity
-- Philippe Starck -
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
-- Phyllis Bottome -
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul
-- Plato -
Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.
-- Samuel Daniel -
..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.
-- Sarah Waters -
I've been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.
-- Shane Koyczan -
Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.
-- Stephen Fry -
Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.
-- Sylvia Plath -
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
-- Teresa of Avila -
The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.
-- Theodor Adorno -
The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.
-- Thomas Bernhard -
Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.
-- Tim Daly -
For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
-- Walter Rudolf Hess -
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.
-- Wilhelm von Humboldt -
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
-- William Golding -
Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.
-- C. J. Anderson -
Keep any description of trouble or sickness or error minimal, for there is something inside which is listening, and it says, 'Oh! You like this! I will make you a lot more of it.'
-- Ervin Seale -
Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
The same drugs are way cheaper in Germany than in America because, obviously, if all sickness funds negotiate with the drug companies for a single price, then the market power of the sickness funds is fully used. So therefore you would expect the prices to be lower for the drugs in Germany, and this is exactly what you see, at least for non-generic drugs.
-- Karl Lauterbach -
I think we have in Germany too many sickness funds. We started with more than 1,000 sickness funds. But the fewer sickness funds there are, the less bureaucracy and the easier the system is to operate. But it is important that the best sickness funds survive.
-- Karl Lauterbach -
I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.
-- Miranda Raison -
I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness.
-- Stephen Starr
